Click here to enlarge imageThe module uses the absolute filtration method (dead end), which maintains economical plant operations. Ultrastil combines the following process steps: raw water feed, rinsing, ultrafiltration, pure water storage, cleaning and disinfection, in addition to a Simatic S 7 control cabinet to control and monitor all fully automated processes. The ultrafiltration membranes installed have a pore diameter of approximately 0.01 µm ensuring a cut-off of 100 kD (kilo Dalton) for the retention. Assembly work during the commissioning of the plant on site is unnecessary since the membrane filtration system is supplied ready-to-connect or as a component of the compact high-purity water treatment plant Osmotron.
Christ GmbH
Stuttgart, Germany
Aquator secures MBR order in Qatar
Technip-Coflexip of Rome, Italy, awarded a contract to Aquator (Bahrain) W. L. L. for the design and construction of a wastewater treatment plant for the Qatar Vinyl production plant in Mesaieed Industrial City, Qatar.
The Aquator plant will use submerged flat sheet membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology to treat highly contaminated wastewater from the vinyl plant, which produces linoleum, before the treated effluent is reused and/or disposed. Aquator engineers in the Bahrain office, company headquarters for the Middle East, designed the plant. Plant assembly was completed in Jebel Ali prior to shipment to Qatar in the middle of October 2003.
Aquator Group Limited
Trowbridge, Wiltshire, UK
Interlocking endcaps eliminate weakest link
New "interlocking endcaps" achieve direct, leak-tight connection between adjacent permeate tubes, eliminating numerous problems associated with sliding couplers, the connection method used in most current reverse osmosis (RO) systems.